Friday, July 13, 2007
Posted in News at 9:50 pm by Scott
I know all of you have been waiting on news from the congregation here in Edisto… I apologize for taking so long. In this case, no news is good news. We have been steadily working on the building here, adding to the handrails. Last week (the first week in July) we worked with the youth from the Central congregation in Johnson City, Tennessee, who made their fourth visit. This year they were joined by some members of the Jefferson Avenue congregation in Cookeville, Tennessee. The nearly fifty folks worked in some hot, humid weather to clear brush from the lot (nearly completely so) and stain and seal the building. I hope to post many pictures in the next few days.
During our work last week, we discovered that one of the original support posts that we installed to hold up the front porch gable was badly decomposed. The post was slightly damaged when we installed it a few years ago, but due to the cost involved (the post is an irregular cut of heavy lumber) we chose to use it anyway. Now that we are much more experienced we were able to fashion a new post out of one of the extra logs left over from construction of the walls of the building. Using jacks, we were able to remove the damaged post and replace it with a healthy one. We have jumped one of the hurdles of long-term construction projects: maintenance on prior work. We sometimes wonder if Noah encountered similar circumstances! Next week we will return to our task of building handrails.
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Monday, April 23, 2007
Posted in News at 7:06 pm by Scott
We are still working on the building. We have completed the fire escape and handicap access decking and are now working on the hand rails for these. There is not much other news to report. I hope to have some more pictures up very soon.
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Sunday, November 19, 2006
Posted in News, Pictures at 6:21 pm by Scott
I wanted to take a moment to check in and tell you what we have been doing since my last post in July. Shortly after the roof was finished, we began the task of building the handicap access ramp and fire escape system.
This was very interesting work! Each post that supports the decking had to be attached to a cross tie that was buried either three feet deep, or as deep as the hard clay/rock layer, whichever is shallowest. I was going to give you a count of how many holes we dug and how many posts we planted, but I lost count long ago! Most of the 6×6 posts are eight feet long, but the four posts used to support the highest decks were 24 feet long. Those long posts were lifted in place with the assistance of a rope from the window/doorway above.
The good news is that the final post was planted in place on Friday and we should finish the decking on December 1. We are very happy to see all of that digging come to an end!
I apologize for not checking in sooner, but not much else has been happening.
You can see pictures of all of this work by clicking here.
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Sunday, July 23, 2006
Posted in News, Pictures at 7:46 pm by Scott
This week, the roofers finished installing the roof. Click here for pictures.
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Sunday, July 16, 2006
Posted in News, Pictures at 7:43 pm by Scott
On Wednesday, the roofing contractor began installing the final aluminum roofing. The contractor expects the roof to be complete midweek. For pictures, click here.
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